Tag: Moore County

EVEN MORE STUFF Timmy and John Lentz won’t tell you …

Posted on September 26, 2012 by Brant Clifton

If you count on The Pilot as your main source of news in Moore County, I truly feel sorry for you. For the most part, the newsroom’s modus operandi has

Queen Nancy sticks it to NCDOT (DOT chief to “educate” us)

Posted on September 24, 2012September 24, 2012 by Brant Clifton

We here at The Haymaker have to stand up and applaud Her Majesty, The Queen of Pinehurst,(a/k/a Mayor Nancy Fiorillo) for speaking out

The Pilot’s county govt coverage: All Timmy, All the Time

Posted on September 24, 2012 by Brant Clifton

By reading the work of staff writer John Lentz in our Bavarian Goat Farmer Association Award-winning thrice weekly local newspaper, you might think that Tim Lea is the only

District Court race features a super PAC, bare-knuckled rhetoric and verbal combat

Posted on September 23, 2012September 23, 2012 by Brant Clifton

Judicial races in North Carolina tend to be quiet, gentlemanly affairs that occur below the radar. Not this year. Not in our neck of the woods. Randolph County

Tim Lea’s 2012 rhetoric doesn’t match up with his record

Posted on September 12, 2012 by Brant Clifton

Facts can be an inconvenient thing for politicians. Most like to say whatever will please the crowd right in front of them AT THAT MOMENT. The introduction of

Guzzling Timmy’s kool-aid in The Pilot’s newsroom

Posted on September 8, 2012September 8, 2012 by Brant Clifton

Very few people outside of The Pilot’s newsroom take county commissioner Tim Lea seriously. That became crystal clear in the 2008 GOP primaries, when Lea barely eked

Is Tim Lea playing TOO nice with Democrats?

Posted on September 5, 2012 by Brant Clifton

I never cease to be amazed by some of the things said and done by allegedly Republican Moore County commissioner Tim Lea. For the last several months, Lea has been

Working Lands Protection Plan: a backdoor implementation of UN’s Agenda 21?

Posted on September 3, 2012September 3, 2012 by Brant Clifton

I’ve learned to be wary of ANYTHING containing the word “sustainable” or any organization whose name contains the word “sustainable.” That word typically signals an intent to hamstring capitalists and

So, NOW she’s a “Tea Party person”

Posted on August 29, 2012August 29, 2012 by Brant Clifton

Congresswoman Renee Ellmers is having quite a rocky relationship with folks in her new majority Republican district. A recent survey by Public Policy Polling found that she

Source: Justice Reinvestment Act likely played big part in Moore County murder case

Posted on August 25, 2012 by Brant Clifton

The discovery of an Aberdeen woman’s body near the county landfill, and her live-in boyfriend’s subsequent murder arrest, this week have a lot of people in the area